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20 Sep 2017, 9:31 am

So, is Corduroy fabric "coming back" once more yet again?

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"Of course, corduroy wasn’t always in comeback mode. If you were, however, to set a single decade as “peak corduroy,” which decade might you choose?"


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"It sounds like an absurd, perhaps even improbable idea for a clothing line, yet here we are in 2017, at the cusp of embracing once-unfashionable cords all over again."


http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/history-of-corduroy


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20 Sep 2017, 9:33 am

Aaaarrggghhh... noooo!
Hated it first time round.


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20 Sep 2017, 9:33 am

Ooooh, any aspies rocking the 'mad professor in corduroy jacket' look? Pipe smoking and whiskers optional?


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20 Sep 2017, 9:37 am

underwater wrote:
Ooooh, any aspies rocking the 'mad professor in corduroy jacket' look?
When corduroy is as light and flexible as tropical shirts I might give it a try. :lol:


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20 Sep 2017, 9:42 am

That's sort of my style----except I don't own one of those jackets.



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20 Sep 2017, 10:00 am

My dear old dad loved his baggy corduroy trousers at the weekends.

But I had a pair of corduroy jeans-type ones and I hated them. They had no give.



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20 Sep 2017, 10:04 am

That's what got me to go back to University-College....the movie "Shadowlands," where the professor wore that kind of suit jacket.



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20 Sep 2017, 10:21 am

A corduroy jacket does seem to be that classic "professorial" look, doesn't it?

With the leather elbow patches, and things. It's even like the movie costume department's go-to look for any school teacher or college professor, lol.



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20 Sep 2017, 10:22 am

Yep....that's the crux of it :D



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20 Sep 2017, 5:46 pm

I like to wear cords but the fabric goes through my hands every time I touch it :(


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20 Sep 2017, 6:03 pm

I woman I worked with used to wear corduroy jeans to work for winter.
Whenever I walked anywhere with her, I could hear a loud swishing noise where the fabric of the jeans rubbed between her legs.
It was freaking annoying! :x


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20 Sep 2017, 6:47 pm

I really like corduroy jeans. If they are boot cut, or even a little flare, it's perfect!

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20 Sep 2017, 9:09 pm

Raleigh, I think I remember that annoying swishing noise when I wore mine too! Aggh!

What I didn't like about my cord jeans was the fabric seems so completely without "give" as you move or sit, even if not particularly tight-fitting. I find even denim jeans sort of 'give' more than corduroy, even though denim doesn't give much either. But my cords were worse. I really hated mine and never bought another pair since. I felt restricted in them. :(



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20 Sep 2017, 9:11 pm

Froya wrote:
I really like corduroy jeans. If they are boot cut, or even a little flare, it's perfect!

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I love that color!


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20 Sep 2017, 9:21 pm

xxZeromancerlovexx wrote:
Froya wrote:
I really like corduroy jeans. If they are boot cut, or even a little flare, it's perfect!

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I love that color!

Me too! According to my skin tone I'm not supposed to wear warm colors, as it makes me look paler. I don't take that much into consideration though when I buy clothes.



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20 Sep 2017, 9:42 pm

A friend once tried to get me to "do my colors," regarding matching clothing choices to skin tone and the "season" you are. She was raving about that book that came out years ago, all about skin tone seasons.

I thought it was all hooey. I just wear the colors I'm drawn to and that I love, I don't care if they are not supposed to be the right ones for my skin tone. I'm not going to wear colors I hate and have no emotional pull toward just because a theory says they are the ones I should be wearing.